ABSTRACT
The daughter of East Los Angeles political activist Ed Roybal, Lillian Roybal Rose was tutored in political outrage by a crusader against police brutality and other forms of urban-ethnic discrimination. Lillian was a political activist at California State University, Los Angeles, where she earned a B.A. in sociology in 1967, and at the University of Southern California, where she earned a masters in education in 1970. Rose fused cross-cultural interests with the theory of "internalized oppression," which she learned from Erika Marcuse, the wife of Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Many diversity management books contain admonitions that trainers must continually work on their own biases and hidden interests. Rose uses experiential, emotional, and sometimes confrontational techniques to raise awareness about personal harm caused by the "isms": racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, and others. She sees her mission as helping organizations cope with the emotional upheavals caused by the "transition from the old Anglo-dominated status quo to a new multicultural order.
